Waitressing

lovonnastinsonchalkey

I just started a new waitressing job. When I researched it it says that waitressing for a 140 pound women working at an average pace is about 250 calories an hour. I worked 5 hours but i have a hard time believing i burned 1250 calories. Does this seem to high? Should I count this in my calories or not?

nataliefamily3

I waitress and expo I dont count it as exercise at all. I just set my activity level to moderatly active and call it a day.

jenna715

you have to remember you'd burn calories even sleeping for 5 hours. I think the average for a person that size would be maybe around 50cals/hr. If you have your profile set to sedentary, I would count some of those calories, but 1000 seems excessive. Id at least cut that number in half. As the poster above said, if you set your activity level to more active than sedentary, I wouldn't count waitressing calories.

I've been working out and using mfp for over a year now, and I also waitress. I can't imagine eating an extra 500 calories just because I went to work. If its an excessively busy day, I may add like 200 cals.

badtastebetty

I used to waitress at a very busy restaurant and it was a total blessing for my figure (the homemade hollandaise was not). However, I wouldn't log it as exercise specifically, but instead bump your activity level to moderate.

lovonnastinsonchalkey

thanks to everyone for the input. I will change my activity level.